William Heath heads the Control Systems Centre. He is a Reader in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

His personal page is here.

He received a BA in Mathematics from Cambridge University in 1987. He received an MSc in Systems and Control and a PhD from the Control Systems Centre, UMIST, in 1989 and 1992 respectively. He continued at the Control Systems Centre until 1994, and was then with Lucas Advanced Engineering Centre until 1998. From 1998 to 2004 he was a Research Academic with CIDAC, University of Newcastle, Australia. He returned to the University of Manchester in 2004.

He serves on the Editorial Board for the IET Journal on Control Theory and Applications and on the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee for System Identification and Adaptive Control. He is a Member of both the IEEE and the IMA.

• EPSRC: Absolute stability theory of feedback interconnections and robust antiwindup control design. 2010-2013
• EPSRC: Real-time Frequency-based Corrective Control of Future Networks - FreCon. 2009-2012
• EPSRC: Transgenic Modelling of Beta-Cell Homeostasis. 2007-2009